EDITORIAL: 26 reasons to act: Charlotte Bacon

Charlotte Bacon loved the color pink, and the color dominated her funeral at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Newtown as her classmates filed in wearing pink dresses, headbands and ribbons.

She wanted to be a veterinarian, and her favorite movie was "Brave," whose heroine is a young girl with bouncy red hair like hers.

Charlotte Bacon was 6 years old when she was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 14 by who knows how many of the hundreds of bullets fired from a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

We urge the Connecticut General Assembly to remember who Charlotte was and what happened to her as they consider legislation restricting access to high-capacity weapons and ammunition in the coming weeks.